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Waging Nonviolence is a nonprofit media organization dedicated to providing original reporting and expert analysis of social movements around the world. With a commitment to accuracy, transparency and editorial independence, we examine today’s most crucial issues by shining a light on those who are organizing for just and peaceful solutions.

What Our Pro-Democracy Movement Should Be Learning from Nature

By Waging Nonviolence ● Democracy ● July 14, 2025

We need to learn to fly like bees and thread like spiders, writes conflict transformation expert John Paul Lederach.

Is This Our American Spring? How Nonviolent Protest is Accelerating Across the United States

By Waging Nonviolence ● Praxis ● June 13, 2025

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.

Is This a ‘Movement Moment’ Rising to Swamp Trump?

By Mark Engler, Paul Engler & Waging Nonviolence ● Praxis ● April 25, 2025

How to recognize the characteristics that make for powerful whirlwinds of protest against injustice and tyranny.

Trump and the Insurrection Act: What You Need to Know Right Now

By Daniel Hunter & Waging Nonviolence ● Democracy ● April 4, 2025

With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond — including refusal, resistance, and ridicule.

This is How We Organize Under Authoritarian Creep in a Closing Civil Society

By Waging Nonviolence & Nadine Bloch ● Democracy ● February 6, 2025

History is full of lessons from those who’ve faced — and defeated — authoritarian regimes. Their victories remind us that in crisis there is also opportunity.

Fighting for the Climate Under Authoritarianism Regimes—A Q&A with Yeb Saño

By Waging Nonviolence ● Democracy ● November 22, 2024

Former chief climate diplomat for the Philippines Yeb Saño discusses his work with Greenpeace Southeast Asia and the challenges climate activists face under repressive governments.

How to Prepare Yourself Now for Another Trump Presidency

By Waging Nonviolence ● Democracy ● November 7, 2024

The key to taking effective action in a Trump world is to avoid perpetuating the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.

Five Ways to Approach the 2024 Election with a Movement Mindset

By Waging Nonviolence ● Democracy ● October 29, 2024

For those angsting over how to cast their vote, consider these insights on the role elections play in building long-term power.

Solidarity Lessons: Four Takeaways from the Pro-Palestine Student Encampments

By Waging Nonviolence ● Praxis ● June 8, 2024

For the encampments to alter America’s ‘common sense’ on Palestine, they must center solidarity, speak to the majority, and popularize an alternative to Zionism.

How to Help Stand Against Oppression in Palestine-Israel

By Waging Nonviolence ● Praxis ● October 25, 2023

For more than 75 years, the Palestinian people have been resisting occupation, dehumanization, ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, imprisonment, the denial of basic human rights and other injustices from the Israeli state.

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